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English
Proper noun
Rhadamanthys
- Alternative form of Rhadamanthus
German
Proper noun
Rhadamanthys m (proper noun, strong, genitive Rhadamanthys)
- (Greek mythology) Rhadamanthus
1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 329:[…] Gleich damals waren Sie so amüsant und machten Hofrat Behrens zum Höllenrichter … Rhadames … Nein, warten Sie, das ist was anderes …“ „Rhadamanthys? Mag sein, daß ich ihn beiläufig so nannte. Ich behalte nicht alles, was mein Kopf gelegentlich hervorsprudelt.“- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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